A careful study (framed)

A Careful study, 2025

Acrylic on Canvas Panel
41 x 51cm
Framed

 

Lauren Shantall 

Born in Durban, Lauren has lived in Cape Town since1995. She works full-time in communications and devotes time to painting whenever she can. Lauren works mainly in acrylics on canvas. Her paintings reveal an ongoing fascination for plants, trees and flowers.  

She lives in Fish Hoek with her husband and their son, four dogs and a cat. 

Exhibitions 

Plant Babies. Solo Show. The Yard. February 2023

LUSH. Group Show. RK Contemporary. December 2022 - February 2023

Blue. Group Show. RK Contemporary. September 2022

Deep South Community Art Exhibition. Group Show. Scarborough Community Hall. December 2021

Familiar Strangers. Group Show. Vacant Museum. July 2021

Show Some HeART. Group Show. HeART Project. March 2021

Gathering. Group Show. Jaffer Modern. December 2020

Colectiva. Group Show. Galeria Azur Madrid. October 2020.

Relief. Group Show. Vacant Museum. September 2020.

Eat, Sleep, (I can’t) Breathe. Group Show. Vacant Museum. July 2020.

In A Frame. Group Show. Spin St Gallery. May 2019.

Plantasia. Solo Show. Station Rd, Observatory. 2004

Notable

Brick Lane Gallery (London) Open Call Finalist

Press

Saturday Star: https://www.iol.co.za/saturday-star/news/look-plant-babies-an-artistic-ode-in-celebration-of-the-role-plants-play-in-human-existence-f3e85b8e-909c-478f-b315-191b33d4c6c7

What’s on in Cape Town: https://whatsonincapetown.com/event/plant-babies/

Garden and Home: https://www.gardenandhome.co.za/whats-new/the-private-life-of-plants-explored-in-painting/

Woman and Home: https://www.womanandhomemagazine.co.za/art/the-life-of-plants-explored-through-art-with-lauren-shantall/

Now in SA: https://nowinsa.co.za/2023/editors-picks/new-art-exhibition-revisits-human-plant-evolutionary-relational-traits/